Name: Homeschool Fun Fridays: Wild Card! (Atrium)
Start: 2025-01-31T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-31T14:30:00-05:00
Location: Atrium Children's Space

Homeschool Fun Fridays: Wild Card! (Atrium)

Friday, January 31, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Atrium Children's Space at BPL Atrium Library

Program Type:

Arts and Culture, Hands-on Learning

Age Group:

Preschool, Children, Tweens, Teens

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: BPL Atrium Library

Room: Atrium Children's Space

Age Group: Preschool, Children, Tweens, Teens

Program Type: Arts and Culture, Hands-on Learning

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

5th Friday Wild Card! We will have fun activities for you to participate in.

Come join the Children’s Museum at Bloomfield Library on the first and second Friday's of the month.

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

Caregivers

This program is designed for children and caregivers. Please plan to attend with your child for this program.

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African Drumming (330 Park)

Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Off Site

Program Type:

Arts and Culture

Age Group:

Preschool, Children, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages

Open

Required

Offsite Event

Open

Library Branch: Off Site

Age Group: Preschool, Children, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages

Program Type: Arts and Culture

Required

Seats Remaining: 57

Event Details:

Come to celebrate, Take Your Child to the Library Day, and the first day of Black History Month, with BPL!

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

Caregivers

This program is designed for children and caregivers. Please plan to attend with your child for this program.

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The Black Perspective in Film and Television (Virtual)

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Virtual

Program Type:

Arts and Culture, Civics and Social Justice

Age Group:

Teens, Adults

Open

Required

Virtual Event

Open

Library Branch: Virtual

Age Group: Teens, Adults

Program Type: Arts and Culture, Civics and Social Justice

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

BPL is excited to welcome back educator Jaeme McDonald for another inspiring Black History program. Throughout American history, the stories, images, and perspectives of Black Americans have been excluded, distorted, and undervalued.

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

Virtual (with Recording)

You must provide your email address at registration to receive the Zoom link. Make sure to leave the box checked that reads: "Send notifications via e-mail." Your registration confirmation notice includes the Zoom link for the program. This program may be recorded.

a beige wallpaper background with gold picture frames around pictures of the book, There was a Party for Langston, a black and white photo of Alma Thomas, the picture book cover of Ablaze with Color A Story of Painter Alma Thomas, and a black and white picture of Langston Hughes.

Black History Month Picture Book Biographies & Mosaic (Atrium)

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Atrium Children's Space at BPL Atrium Library

Program Type:

Arts and Culture, Book Discussion, Storytime

Age Group:

Children

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: BPL Atrium Library

Room: Atrium Children's Space

Age Group: Children

Program Type: Arts and Culture, Book Discussion, Storytime

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

Come to the Atrium to listen to picture book biographies about African American heroes, for Black History Month!

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

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Celebrating Black Artists: Wadsworth Virtual Tour (Virtual)

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Virtual

Program Type:

Arts and Culture, Civics and Social Justice

Age Group:

Teens, Adults

Open

Required

Virtual Event

Open

Library Branch: Virtual

Age Group: Teens, Adults

Program Type: Arts and Culture, Civics and Social Justice

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

Attention art lovers! Can’t make it to The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art?

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

Virtual

You must provide your email address at registration to receive the Zoom link. Make sure to leave the box checked that reads: "Send notifications via e-mail." Your registration confirmation notice includes the Zoom link for the program.

Libraries Opening at Noon

Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 10:00am - 12:00pm

BPL Atrium Library, BPL Tech Express, McMahon Wintonbury Library, Off Site, Virtual

Closing

Branches:

BPL Atrium Library, BPL Tech Express, McMahon Wintonbury Library, Off Site, Virtual

Description:

BPL Atrium Library and BPL Tech Express will be closed from 10AM to 12PM on Thursday, February 13 for staff professional development. New libraries are coming!

BPL Online is open 24/7!

Presidents' Day - Libraries CLOSED

All Day

BPL Atrium Library, BPL Tech Express, McMahon Wintonbury Library, Off Site, Virtual

Closing

Branches:

BPL Atrium Library, BPL Tech Express, McMahon Wintonbury Library, Off Site, Virtual

Description:

BPL Online is always open!

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Portraits of Love with TimeFrozen Photography (Virtual)

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Virtual

Program Type:

Arts and Culture, Civics and Social Justice

Age Group:

Adults

Open

Required

Virtual Event

Open

Library Branch: Virtual

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Arts and Culture, Civics and Social Justice

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

Join us in celebrating Valentine's and Black History Month with local award-winning photographer Keith Claytor of TimeFrozen Photography. On an expedition to Nigeria in 2003, images that Keith took as creative vacation photos were w

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

Virtual (with Recording)

You must provide your email address at registration to receive the Zoom link. Make sure to leave the box checked that reads: "Send notifications via e-mail." Your registration confirmation notice includes the Zoom link for the program. This program may be recorded.

Homeschool Fun Fridays: Poetry (Atrium)

Friday, February 21, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Atrium Children's Space at BPL Atrium Library

Program Type:

Arts and Culture, Poetry

Age Group:

Preschool, Children, Tweens, Teens

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: BPL Atrium Library

Room: Atrium Children's Space

Age Group: Preschool, Children, Tweens, Teens

Program Type: Arts and Culture, Poetry

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

Come make poetry with the Youth Services Librarians! Feel free to bring any poems you have. Let's play with some words! Participants will have the option of adding their poems to the BPL Story Cube!

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

Caregivers

This program is designed for children and caregivers. Please plan to attend with your child for this program.

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Without Money or Moneyed Friends: Mark Twain, Charles Ethan Porter, and Art Patronage in the Gilded Age (Virtual)

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Virtual

Program Type:

Arts and Culture

Age Group:

Adults

Open

Required

Virtual Event

Open

Library Branch: Virtual

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Arts and Culture

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

This program explores the relationship between Mark Twain and Charles Ethan Porter, a prominent Black painter in Gilded Age Connecticut.

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

Virtual

You must provide your email address at registration to receive the Zoom link. Make sure to leave the box checked that reads: "Send notifications via e-mail." Your registration confirmation notice includes the Zoom link for the program.

The British Invasion and American Answer: A Musical Journey (Virtual)

Monday, March 3, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Virtual

Program Type:

Arts and Culture

Age Group:

Adults

Open

Required

Virtual Event

Open

Library Branch: Virtual

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Arts and Culture

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

Take a fun and nostalgic journey through the most iconic and greatest era of rock-and-roll history with author and pop culture historian Marty Gitlin.

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

Virtual

You must provide your email address at registration to receive the Zoom link. Make sure to leave the box checked that reads: "Send notifications via e-mail." Your registration confirmation notice includes the Zoom link for the program.

Silhouette of woman with flowing hair. Image is made up of several smaller silhouettes of a diverse group of women

Tales of Women, Wise and Wondrous (Virtual)

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Virtual

Program Type:

Arts and Culture, Civics and Social Justice, Performance, Storytime

Age Group:

Adults

Open

Required

Virtual Event

Open

Library Branch: Virtual

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Arts and Culture, Civics and Social Justice, Performance, Storytime

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

For Women’s History Month, BPL is excited to present one of Sara deBeer’s most popular programs. Sara's style of storytelling and presentation is warm and personal.

Notes

Accommodations

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library at least one week prior to the event.

Virtual

You must provide your email address at registration to receive the Zoom link. Make sure to leave the box checked that reads: "Send notifications via e-mail." Your registration confirmation notice includes the Zoom link for the program.

Homeschool Fun Fridays: Poetry (Atrium)

Friday, March 21, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Atrium Children's Space at BPL Atrium Library

Program Type:

Arts and Culture, Poetry

Age Group:

Preschool, Children, Tweens, Teens

Open

Required

Open

Library Branch: BPL Atrium Library

Room: Atrium Children's Space

Age Group: Preschool, Children, Tweens, Teens

Program Type: Arts and Culture, Poetry

Required

Seats Remaining: Unlimited

Event Details:

Come make poetry with the Youth Services Librarians! Feel free to bring any poems you have. Let's play with some words! Participants will have the option of adding their poems to the BPL Story Cube!

Notes

Accommodations

BPL Atrium Library, BPL Tech Express, McMahon Wintonbury Library, Off Site, Virtual

Description:

Time TBD by the Town. BPL Online is always open!

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